Windows 10: My Microsoft Account has my laptop listed as SIX (6) separate devices!

I wanted to check my Microsoft Account (MSA) to see if BOTH my retail Windows licenses were in fact associated / linked to my account. And I was both amused and horrified to see this when I chose the "Devices" tab of my Microsoft Account:




Forget for the moment the two virtual machines. The fact is that the single physical laptop appears in my account as 6 different physical machines. As far as I am aware, I have not substantially changed the hardware at all, beyond upgrading the amount of RAM, since I bought the laptop. Of course I will click on "Manage" to see if I can somehow distingush these machines. But I shouldn't really be able to, i think. There is only one laptop.

what is the right thing for me to do in this case? I haven't been accused of violating any EULA (yet), But I worry that if MS thinks I have 6 physical machimes, I can understand why they would expect me to have six lisences. I don't want to find myself cut off because of some weird bugs in how MS counts individual machines.

Thanks for any sage advice

scott

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Laptop not listed in Devices in Microsoft Account

Hi Taleys,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

I understand that your laptop is not appearing among the list of trusted devices.

Thank you for mentioning the steps you have tried to resolve the issue.

I would suggest you to try the steps below to make sure the laptop has been verified.

1. Sign in to the main computer with your Microsoft Account.

2. Press Windows key + I to open settings

3. Click on "accounts" and select "your account" on the left pane.

4. Check if the option to verify your identity is available.

5. If so, click "verify" and follow the on-screen instructions.

6. Once that is done, begin the setup steps given in the article
and check again.

Get back to us with the response. We will be glad to help if you need further assistance.

 

Laptop not listed in Devices in Microsoft Account

Hi. When I log into my Microsoft account and check under Devices, I only see 3 out of 4 devices that I use with the account. Listed are two nokia windows phones running win 8.1 and 1 hp stream 11 laptop running windows 10.

My main hp-15 laptop running windows 10 is not listed.

I've tried the steps here:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/what-is-trusted-device

to make it a trusted device but it doesn't make my hp-15 laptop listed.

Thanks

 

Laptop not listed in Devices in Microsoft Account

It seems to only work temporarily with my laptop and only if I'm logged into the computer with a microsoft account which I verify. If i go back to a local account, the listing under devices disappears. However, another netbook I have that I use a local
account with remains listed.